Customers have year-after-year selected Ronan as a top choice in the Annunciator category for the CONTROL Reader's Choice Awards, and this year was no exception! Ronan Engineering placed #3 in the category and we sincerely thank those customers who helped get us there.

It’s hard to believe that just ten years ago, many of us were using flip phones and even… PAGERS!

Watching your favorite television shows required being in the family living room with a CRT TV and if you were unable to watch a show as scheduled, you had to program the VCR (Hint for Millennials: Google “Video Cassette Recorder”) to record it.

Buying an alarm annunciator can be a daunting task without a roadmap. This 8-step list should give you a simple start to get your research going in the right direction.

Figure out if your alarm system is required to have its own logic or will act as a mimic display (no logic) that is driven from an external source. If you're looking for the latter, then direct your search to a "lamp box" or "LED cabinet." If logic is required (meaning your operators response is dictated by a programmed logic sequence), read on - you're in the right place.

A bold statement recently made by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta garnered some media attention following a cyber attack on Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer.

If you have yet to see the news, click on the CBS video below:

Whether you buy in to the extremity of Panetta’s statement or not, the reality is that even the world’s largest oil producer isn’t immune to the crippling impact of a cyber attack. It reminds us that even the most advanced computer-based SCADA system, PLC or DCS in your plant today isn’t perfect.

It was a relief to read that “there was no danger” because the reactors were in shut down mode, however, this event begs us to ask: Why take any risks?

Every step of your critical process presents its own risk for failure - even the emergency generator. An annunciator can account for abnormal conditions even within your emergency generator. A fault alarm in an emergency generator can go unnoticed if there is no proper annunciator system.

Over 50 Years of Proven Knowledge and Experience

Ronan products are found in power plants, oil and gas refineries, medical buildings, metal processing plants, chemical plants, food and beverage plants, paper plants, mining operations, military vessels, hydrogen gas stations, and more. After over 50 years of providing thousands of Process & Power customers with custom solutions for their monitoring and measurement needs, Ronan has decided to expose these solutions to YOU.